The Association for Natural Language Processing, the Human Interface Society, the Information Processing Society of Japan, The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, and The Database Society of Japan established a joint editorial board to disseminate technical publications to the international community by jointly building and maintaining archives of technical papers published in separate journals in respective academic societies. The archives are called Information and Media Technologies (the IMT archives) and the joint editorial board (the editorial board).

Figure ‚P: Framework of Information and Media Technologies

2.The Framework

The editorial board collects reprints of technical papers published from academic societies participating on the editorial board and accumulates them as joint archives accessible from the Internet. Each volume of the IMT archives starts January 1st of each year. Each volume consists of four numbers, to be released in March, June, September and December.